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News from Black Communities of Gwinnett County Georgia.Mon, 12 Feb 2018 01:54:02 +0000enhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4Blacks in World War I: A Centennial Veterans Remembrancehttp://blackgwinnett.com/black-pride/blacks-in-world-war-i-a-centennial-veterans-remembrance/
http://blackgwinnett.com/black-pride/blacks-in-world-war-i-a-centennial-veterans-remembrance/#respondSun, 11 Feb 2018 23:25:18 +0000http://blackgwinnett.com/?p=534The Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, in partnership with BlackGwinnett Magazine, is presenting “Blacks in World War I: A Centennial Remembrance” in celebration of Black History Month 2018. Veterans and their families, along with the general public, are invited to attend this engaging, interactive and educational event. The event explores the contributions of black men and women during World War I.

11:30a – Registration for Veterans History Project Community Training. Box lunches, sodas and water provided. Lunch provided on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Noon – 1:00p – The History Project Training with Owen Rogers – Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP) – Since 2012, Owen Rogers has served as Liaison Specialist for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP), effecting intersections among community voices, archival holdings, and creating digital projects that inclusively interpret veterans’ narratives. Public facing projects reflect field work and experience in the context of “born digital” archives, including both the New Haven Oral History Project and CCSU Veterans History Project. He is an At-Large Board Member for the Oral History in the Mid Atlantic Region (OHMAR) organization and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from the University of Connecticut – Storrs and a Master of Arts Degree in Public History from Central Connecticut State University (CCSU).

1:00 – 2:00p – World War I and America Short Documentaries, Readings, Open Discussions

• World War I History: The Harlem Hellfighters Short Documentary – The Harlem Hellfighters were an African-American infantry unit in WWI who spent more time in combat than any other American unit. Despite their courage, sacrifice and dedication to their country, they returned home to face racism and segregation from their fellow countrymen. (7 mins.)

• Heroes of Color – An animation directed by David Heredia – Best Animation winner at the 16th Urban Mediamakers Film Festival 2017. (3 mins.)

2:15-2:45 – Discussion and Next Steps

Community training will also be provided for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VCP) to put veterans photos, letters, and oral histories to the Library of Congress digital archives.

This Urban Mediamakers program, in partnership with BlackGwinnett Magazine, is funded by the national initiative World War I and America of The Library of America presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and other organizations, with generous support from The National Endowment for the Humanities.

If you are reading this and you are white, seeing people who look like you in mass media probably isn’t something you think about often. Every day, the culture reflects not only you but nearly infinite versions of you—executives, poets, garbage collectors, soldiers, nurses and so on. The world shows you that your possibilities are boundless. Now, after a brief respite, you again have a President.

Marvel’s New Movie Marks a Major Milestone

The first movie I remember seeing in a theater had a black hero. Lando Calrissian, played by Billy Dee Williams, didn’t have any superpowers, but he ran his own city. That movie, the 1980 Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back, introduced Calrissian as a complicated human being who still did the right thing. That’s one reason I grew up knowing I could be the same.

If you are reading this and you are white, seeing people who look like you in mass media probably isn’t something you think about often. Every day, the culture reflects not only you but nearly infinite versions of you—executives, poets, garbage collectors, soldiers, nurses and so on. The world shows you that your possibilities are boundless. Now, after a brief respite, you again have a President.

Those of us who are not white have considerably more trouble not only finding representation of ourselves in mass media and other arenas of public life, but also finding representation that indicates that our humanity is multifaceted. Relating to characters onscreen is necessary not merely for us to feel seen and understood, but also for others who need to see and understand us. When it doesn’t happen, we are all the poorer for it.

This is one of the many reasons Black Panther is significant. What seems like just another entry in an endless parade of superhero movies is actually something much bigger. It hasn’t even hit theaters yet and its cultural footprint is already enormous. It’s a movie about what it means to be black in both America and Africa—and, more broadly, in the world. Rather than dodge complicated themes about race and identity, the film grapples head-on with the issues affecting modern-day black life. It is also incredibly entertaining, filled with timely comedy, sharply choreographed action and gorgeously lit people of all colors. “You have superhero films that are gritty dramas or action comedies,” director Ryan Coogler tells TIME. But this movie, he says, tackles another important genre: “Superhero films that deal with issues of being of African descent.”

]]>http://blackgwinnett.com/black-pride/black-panther/feed/0Veterans History Project (VHP) Community Training Comes to Gwinnett Countyhttp://blackgwinnett.com/lawrenceville/veterans-history-project-vhp-community-training-comes-to-lawrenceville/
http://blackgwinnett.com/lawrenceville/veterans-history-project-vhp-community-training-comes-to-lawrenceville/#respondSat, 10 Feb 2018 19:56:52 +0000http://blackgwinnett.com/?p=398The Veterans History Project Community Training Session is coming to Gwinnett County, Georgia, and veterans, their families and the general public are invited to attend this free event. Presented by the Urban Mediamakers and Black Gwinnett Magazine, the training session is led by Owen Rogers of the Library of Congress. The Veterans History Project (VHP) of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. Get Free Tickets Now!

Owen Rogers conducting this community training session. Since 2012, Rogers has served as Liaison Specialist for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP), effecting intersections among community voices, archival holdings, and creating digital projects that inclusively interpret veterans’ narratives. Public facing projects reflect field work and experience in the context of “born digital” archives, including both the New Haven Oral History Project and CCSU Veterans History Project. He is an At-Large Board Member for the Oral History in the Mid Atlantic Region (OHMAR) organization and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from the University of Connecticut – Storrs and a Master of Arts Degree in Public History from Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Get Free Tickets Now!

The Project collects first-hand accounts of U.S. Veterans from the following wars:

This event is part of the Blacks in World War I Centennial Veterans Remembrance.

A continental breakfast will be served.

For more information on the Veterans History Project (VHP) Community Training with Owen Rogers, contact the Urban Mediamakers at 404.460.2793. Get Free Tickets Now!

This Urban Mediamakers program, in partnership with BlackGwinnett Magazine, is funded by the national initiative World War I and America of The Library of America presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and other organizations, with generous support from The National Endowment for the Humanities.

]]>http://blackgwinnett.com/lawrenceville/veterans-history-project-vhp-community-training-comes-to-lawrenceville/feed/0Is Someone Trying to Knock Atlanta Off the Amazon Contender List?http://blackgwinnett.com/georgia/is-someone-trying-to-knock-atlanta-off-the-amazon-contender-list/
http://blackgwinnett.com/georgia/is-someone-trying-to-knock-atlanta-off-the-amazon-contender-list/#respondSun, 28 Jan 2018 00:11:11 +0000http://blackgwinnett.com/?p=509Politicians, chamber of commerces and job seekers are all excited about Atlanta being on the short list of 20 contender cities for the coveted Amazon new location. But is there something amidst with negative press about Georgia?

First there was the news of Atlanta ranking first place for 2018 Top 100 Truck Bottleneck List in the country as reported by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). Located in Arlington, VA, ATRI has collected and reported freight performance measures through truck GPS data since 2002. To add insult to injury, Atlanta is listed six more times on the list including:

Atlanta has been prominent on this Top 100 Truck Bottleneck List for three years, and these facts do not paint a pretty driving picture for Amazon executives.

Next came the news that WalletHub, a personal finance website, ranked Georgia #9 as the ‘worst place’ to live in the United States. According to TheRed&Black publication, eight experts conducted the study and the methodology data set “ranges from median family salary to housing affordability to unemployment rate.” Georgia’s rankings in the WalletHub report are as follows:

• Family Fun – 20 out of 50
• Affordability – 32 out of 50
• Education and Childcare – 45 out of 50
• Socio-Economics – 44 out of 50
• Health and Safety – 48 out of 50

Is someone trying to knock Atlanta off the Amazon contender list or is it a simple case of ‘the numbers don’t lie’? Either way, Georgia politicians, business owners and other stakeholders must develop a strategy to improve the numbers to bring more people and businesses to the peach state!

ATLANTA (Reuters) – The two Democratic candidates running for governor in Georgia are both lawyers and former state legislators. Both are women, and on many policy issues it’s hard to tell them apart. Both even share the same first name – Stacey.

But they sharply disagree on the path to victory.

Stacey Abrams, 44, wants to become the first African American female governor in the United States by mobilizing solidly Democratic black voters, who vote sporadically in elections, to form a winning coalition with white liberals.

Stacey Evans, 39, thinks the math does not add up without also appealing to white moderates, many of them outside urban areas, who voted for President Donald Trump last November. She is highlighting her crossover appeal as a white suburban mother with country roots.

Their divergent strategies mirror a wider debate within the Democratic Party that has grown louder after strong turnout by minority voters helped to power recent Democratic victories in Alabama and Virginia.

As the party prepares for the 2018 congressional elections, there is disagreement over which voters to spend more time and money on – minority voters who are a fast-growing share of the electorate but do not reliably cast ballots, or blue-collar and suburban whites who swing between parties.

Reuters interviews with liberal activist groups, some donors and an examination of campaign finance records show that many on the left are betting on Abrams’ strategy as the best shot at turning a Republican state.

Underscoring the stakes in Georgia is the unusual attention from national groups seeking to push the party farther left. Their level of early support for Abrams is largely unparalleled among other 2018 gubernatorial and many congressional races.

A dozen liberal groups have already thrown support behind Abrams, according to a Reuters tally, even though the Democratic primary, or nominating contest, is still months away. The breadth of that support has been little reported.

Abrams, who rouses audiences to near religious fervor describing her struggles growing up poor and black in the South, argues that Democrats have wasted resources on swing voters.

“We have left too many voters untouched,” she said in an interview, noting that she refuses to tone down her support for abortion, gay rights and labor unions to appeal to Republican-leaning voters.

Her opponent does not discount the importance of black voters and also embraces liberal views. But “you are going to have to persuade some moderate Republicans to vote for you, if you are going to win in Georgia,” said Evans, who tears up before crowds when she recounts a childhood spent moving from one rural trailer home to another.

Chemical analysis of beads found at a site in Nigeria revels a composition entirely unique to the region

Glass was produced in sub-Saharan Africa long before Europeans arrived, according to scientists studying beads found in Nigeria.

Chemical analysis of glass found at a Nigerian archaeological site revealed a distinct composition entirely unique to the region.

The finding contradicts a long-held assumption that glass was brought to sub-Saharan Africa by traders from the Mediterranean or the Middle East.

Igbo Olokun, the site where the beads were discovered, is in the north of an ancient city and regional centre of power called Ile-Ife – the ancestral home of West Africa’s Yoruba people.

Analysis of glass found at a Nigerian site has revealed a unique sub-Saharan glass production industry that existed prior to the arrival of foreign traders Glass was produced in sub-Saharan Africa long before Europeans arrived, according to scientists studying beads found in Nigeria . Chemical analysis of glass found [Read the entire INDEPENDENT article …]

]]>http://blackgwinnett.com/black-history/glass-was-made-in-africa-centuries-before-arrival-of-europeans-says-new-evidence/feed/0A Different Approach to Hair Care in Gwinnetthttp://blackgwinnett.com/buy-black/a-different-approach-to-hair-care-in-gwinnett/
http://blackgwinnett.com/buy-black/a-different-approach-to-hair-care-in-gwinnett/#respondWed, 10 Jan 2018 03:55:29 +0000http://blackgwinnett.com/?p=417On February 4, 2017, Crystal Sheppard opened Gwinnett’s first natural hair boutique – Kinks and Curls Natural Hair Boutique – in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Kinks and Curls Natural Hair Boutique is a beauty supply that exclusively caters to natural hair. The boutique aims to provide a comprehensive selection of natural hair products and supplies partnered with knowledgeable recommendations. Many of their products are specifically created for naturally kinky/curly hair still being handmade by the owners.

“I’ve been natural for many years, but found most larger product lines in the bigger stores did not work for my hair,” said Crystal Sheppard, owner of Kinks and Curls Natural Hair Boutique. “I began buying many of my staple products online and realized these great smaller brands needed to be available in brick and mortar stores. I researched and found this model has found success in a few other states. So two years ago, I began the creation of my business plan to make the idea come to life! There’s a growing trend of black-owned beauty supplies and this particular niche is on the rise.”

Kinks and Curls Natural Hair Boutique
3157 Sugarloaf Parkway, Ste 190
Lawrenceville, Georgia 30045Call Kinks and Curls Natural Hair Boutique at 770-559-9027. Visit their website at http://kinksandcurlsatlanta.com/.
]]>http://blackgwinnett.com/buy-black/a-different-approach-to-hair-care-in-gwinnett/feed/0Tavis Smiley Gets the Last Laughhttp://blackgwinnett.com/tavis-smiley/tavis-smiley-gets-the-last-laugh/
http://blackgwinnett.com/tavis-smiley/tavis-smiley-gets-the-last-laugh/#respondWed, 10 Jan 2018 00:49:31 +0000http://blackgwinnett.com/?p=463With the sexual harrassment and assault wave that is flooding America, black people around the world were holding their breath as white men fell like Dominoes. Then came Russell Simmons. Many said “Oh damn.” But — okay — hip hop, that woman-bashing mentality — one could possibly see that.

But when it was announced that Tavis Smiley was cancelled from PBS, many stopped in their tracks.

Why?

Because with over 20 years of broadcast expertise, Smiley is in a different class of broadcast journalists. He is a media household name in the black community nationally and internationally.

With his poignant, revealing interviews, many are excited and delighted that Smiley is walking through new doors as reported by Baller Alert. Smiley announced a brand new show – “The Upside with Tavis Smiley” – to air on The Word Network and will stream online. The show will have a focus on inspirational storytelling.

It is said that when one door closes many others open, so Smiley’s PBS move could just be the Universe’s way of moving him out of that old situation into something better and completely under his control.

And there is more!

Tavis will be hosting a town hall tour in five cities to talk about relationships on the job, writing a new book and creating an online course titled “Leading by Listening.”

Owning your own content and platform is the only way for Africans in America and blacks across the country to prosper and be totally self-sufficient. Smiley is on the road to showing us once again how it is done with excellence!

As PBS attempted to downsize Smiley, he has reversed that action by bringing “The Upside with Tavis Smiley” to his fans to have its first episode this spring!

#BlackManMagic?

Looks like Tavis Smiley got the last laugh!

]]>http://blackgwinnett.com/tavis-smiley/tavis-smiley-gets-the-last-laugh/feed/0Dr. Umar Johnson Drops Invaluable Africans-in-America Truth Nuggets in Atlantahttp://blackgwinnett.com/racism/dr-umar-johnson-drops-invaluable-africans-in-america-truth-nuggets-in-atlanta/
http://blackgwinnett.com/racism/dr-umar-johnson-drops-invaluable-africans-in-america-truth-nuggets-in-atlanta/#respondWed, 03 Jan 2018 22:12:59 +0000http://blackgwinnett.com/?p=439As a blacktivist, pretty savvy social media and technology person, I have seen the name “Dr. Umar Johnson” and heard snippets of him all over the internet on Twitter, YouTube, TV and the cable news shows. I saw Dr. Johnson on NewOne Roland Martin’s show before it was cancelled, and I felt some kind of way about how he was being challenged by guest panelists. And as the Universe would have it, during the holidays I was checking out YouTube videos about the internet ‘beef’ between Dr. Johnson, Boyce Watkins and Tariq Nasheed when I stumbled on an event at the Shrines of the Black Madonna here in the West End of Atlanta, Georgia. I immediately bought a ticket for the event on the same day it was taking place – Day Three of Kwanzaa on Wednesday, December 28, 2017.

It was a sold out event to hear Dr. Johnson, and the energy was very high with anticipation at the Shrines of the Black Madonna. When Dr. Johnson came on stage I decided to go live on Facebook with the event. [Watch the full video.]

After hearing Dr. Johnson speak, I see why there is a campaign to shut him up. The truth nuggets of Africans in America that Dr. Johnson dropped are life and thought changing. History has proven how America’s white supremacy systems will murder or attempt to destroy any black person who stands up and speaks out for the black community. Dr. Johnson is bringing truth and information to the African American community that needs to be disseminated. While I do not agree with all of his views, his 1.5 hour talk was priceless and one that all Africans in America should at least listen to in its entirety and use critical thinking to make an informed decision about Dr. Johnson.

For me, I am clear that Dr. Johnson is an intelligent, brilliant and prophetic warrior in this fight for equality and justice for his people. His energy is genuine and I know he loves Africans – Africans in America – the black community. I know this is true because you cannot fake Spirit.

But I am conflicted because when I watch YouTube videos of Dr. Johnnson speaking about Boyce Watkins and Tariq Nasheed, I see a different person. His actions on YouTube are disturbing and seem to be the opposite of what he portrays at his speaking engagements. I feel Dr. Johnson is dealing with pettiness that should not be entertained.

Or are these three men doing this for YouTube money and book/film sales? Are they scamming all of us? If so, Karma and the African ancestors will handle you all. Trust and believe!

When Dr. Johnson opens his powerful school, would he want students of the school to be able to search the internet to see pages and pages of hateful videos from him? Is that the standard he would want to set for black youth – especially boys?

In his conversation in Atlanta, Dr. Johnson talked about men having time limits on their ‘beefs’ as a general rule. Can that time limit on his ‘beef’ with Boyce Watkins and Tariq Nasheed be RIGHT NOW?

Wikipedia lists Dr. Johnson as a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and Certified School Psychologist who specializes in working with the parents of African-American children who receive special education and/or are diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders, Boyce Watkins as an American author, economist, political analyst, and social commentator, and Tariq Nasheed is a film producer. In my opinion all three men are acting child-like in this ‘beef’ and are setting a horrible example for youth and adults in our community on how to relate to each other, while simultaneously carrying out the deeds of racism by publicly attacking and demeaning each other.

Could all of this be just three men playing all of us for YouTube money and notoriety?

I am most concerned with Dr. Johnson because he is making a huge difference in the lives of black children and their parents in navigating the public school systems of America. And again, his energy is so very genuine. I cannot speak definitively about the energy of Watkins and Nasheed as I have not been in their presence. Yet I feel all three men are victims of America’s racists systems and the need to unleash fury and vitriol against another brother.

In closing, as your elder, I say STOP IT black men! Dr. Johnson, Boyce Watkins and Tariq Nasheed, I invite each of you to sit down together for a meal or via Skype and work out your ‘beef’ privately. I am offering to be your mediator so that you all can get on with the blacktivist work that we must do RIGHT NOW!

As you said Dr. Johnson, “It’s written in the stars that we coming back. We just got to decide are we going to be the generation to put us back or not.” I say we are the generation and you are a critical component of making that happen. Do not miss this opportunity because of the distraction of nonsense.

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The Video – Dr. Umar Johnson | Shrines of the Black Madonna | Atlanta, Georgia, December 28, 2017This recording starts just shortly after Dr. Umar Johnson takes the stage on December 28, 2017 during the Shrines of the Black Madonna Kwanzaa Day Three – Ujima – Celebration in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Johnson brought truth, comedic analogies and thought-provoking information to everyone in attendance at the Shrines of the Black Madonna. I see why so many people and entities want to silence Dr. Johnson.

Visit Dr. Umar Johnson at http://www.drumarjohnson.com/ and support his continued truth movement across the world. We support Dr. Johnson as we know his mission is to empower and push Africans in America and the world to our natural position of dominance for love, unity and the purge of white supremacy.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Most of the video is transcribed and provided it below.

00:00:10:00
But they can never tell you it’s okay for a boy to date another boy. They can never tell you that we should allow our brothers to get away with marrying women who are not our sisters. We’ve got to stop that black man. We’ve got to stop trying to commit ethnic cleansing through reproduction. You think that you can kill the African DNA. Well one thing we know about the African DNA and if you don’t believe me ask any sister with a perm. She comes back twice a month…. You can’t kill it because African DNA is from God. Okay. We are the manifestation of supreme consciousness on the earth plane. That’s what we are.

In fact, the reason we catching hell is because we haven’t recognized or realized that we are just that.

People say why was the white man created. Why did God create the white man? The white man is here to force you to manifest your God-consciousness. The white man and white woman is the black man and black woman’s test, and until you wake up and recognize that they are not greater than you, you will remain under them.

It’s that simple.

00:01:57
Now getting back to the Miseducation Machine. Let’s go through the rules that you will need to navigate the schools brothers and sisters.

Mothers and fathers Rule #1 – Rule #1 – Don’t tell the school all of your personal family business. I need my single mothers to hear me clearly … because y’all love going to the school looking for sympathy … you keep looking for sympathy from crackers. Your child’s teacher is not your friend. And too often you go into the school trying to make a friend before you’ve done an assessment to see if they even plan on teaching your baby.

How you smiling in somebody’s face and you don’t even know if they care about your child yet. See one of the problems of black America is we still operate under certain assumptions that our experiences have proven to be incorrect. And one of the assumptions is that if a person is teaching that means they give a damn.

That’s a false assumption.

Well then you say then Dr. Umar then why we got so many white teachers teaching our kids if they don’t care about them.

Because there’s not enough jobs in the suburban schools. That’s why they’re there. They’re on a waiting list for the schools in the suburbs. But because teachers don’t want to give those schools up, they may be on that waiting list until the day they retire.

Everybody knows that the easiest job in America if you’re white is getting an emergency certification in a predominately black school district. Because you know the black parents ain’t gonna ask you nothing because you’re white. And whites ain’t gonna ask you nothing because you’re white….

00:03:50:20
It’s only one reason you still have public schools in Atlanta. One reason only. That’s because white women have mortgages to pay in the suburb. That’s all. Isn’t it amazing that they use the white woman to miseducate your son and then her husband locks them up after they’re done.

Isn’t it amazing…

A marriage made in hell….

What is it about the teacher and the police officer that they have in common? Why so many white teachers married to cops. Because both of them have the vested interest in checkmatting the progress of black males….

00:05:11:20
Big screen TVs … let me tell you how you know — how you know you’re in the ghetto …

00:05:46:10
… White Jesus on the wall above us …. blessing the therapy session …. some Negroes what y’all do because you know you don’t have no business with a white Jesus, but you still have a white Jesus construct …

00:06:16:10
… If you notice every Jesus you get no matter how dark he is always has a perm like the white one. You ain’t never had a nappy-headed Jesus on your wall and you ain’t looking for one either. Why you think the mega churches ain’t got no black Jesus — Shrine of the Black Madonna got a black Jesus. But the reason why the mega churches don’t have a black Jesus — Pastors will tell you if I put a black Jesus on my wall Dr. Umar won’t nobody come here no more. Black people are trying to be what you can never be a European, and you hate what you are — which is an African. That is our Ascentia Achilles heel. We’re trying to dis-identify from ourselves in an attempt to disidentify from reality which makes us all mentally ill because the number one symptom of mentally illness is not being able to perceive your reality as it is. And that is why black people can be so easily duped into the illusion of inclusion because the reality is too harsh and unbearable for our lazy asses to fix…

00:07:24:15
You love to be lied to… yes you do … why you think Negroes vote every election. Not because it going to change anything … at least I don’t have to pay for it. Just vote. You think you can vote away police brutality it would be gone already… You think you can vote away white privilege it would be gone already. Isn’t it ironic that the things that bother us the most are never up for election. Listen to me brothers and sisters. And do not get me wrong. I am not saying you should not vote. I am saying you should vote when you have a reason to. But what I have to tell the CoonLumanati on a regular basis. In Atlanta, Georgia y’all have a very sophisticated black booshi untalented 10th – the CoonLumanati — Dr. Johnson we hear you are coming back. We welcome you but we hope the message is going to be uplifting…

00:08:39:00
Now if you give me the choice between two Caucasians both of which … neither of which care about black folks, why would I cast a vote? Why would I endorse one side or the other side? Because one thing that I do not subscribe to that a lot of us subscribe to is this belief in the lessor of two evils. I thought an evil was evil — I didn’t know there was a lessor and a greater than. I am not voting for either evil.

Well you say we have a black man running for mayor and we have a black woman running for mayor. They both Democrats. Which one are you voting for? I’m going to say “Show me the campaign contribution lists.” I want to see who funded hers and I want to see who funded his. And when I look at the campaign contribution list guess what I found out – they got funded by the same people. What am I voting for? Because no matter which one of you goes in there, white supremacist’s agenda is going to be put in place. See brothers and sisters, it doesn’t matter who you vote for. It matters who finances the campaign. And this is where black people keep on loosing because we keep on voting but we are not funding nobody. The most important thing you can do in election in Atlanta is not vote, but finance the campaign. If Dr. Umar Johnson was to run for mayor in Atlanta, no matter how well-meaning I may be — if my money got to come from Walmart, and if my money got to come my the Democratic Party and if my money got to come from the LGBTQIO…

00:10:33:00
FACT CHECK: Here Dr. Johnson speaks about the letter ‘P’ being added to LGBTQ. We researched this information and according to www.snopes.com this is a false rumor.

00:21:33:00
You don’t tell white folks your business. The school is an extension of the prison. There is an invisible tunnel that goes out the back door of middle and high public schools straight to the local county jail… schools is the number one source of fresh bodies for the prison system… oh yes brothers and sisters…

00:22:22:05
The black boy don’t have the problem of learning, the black boy has a problem learning while being discriminated against. White teachers are verbally abusing our sons and daughters on a daily basis. They are killing self-esteem. Why he can’t read? Because you ain’t making him believe he can. There is no such thing as being an educator without be a good motivator. And if you are not a motivator of children, then you have no business in front of them.

And that is why when we open Frederick Marcus Garvey Academy, first assessment I want to do is whether are not you black….

00:23:06:14
I’m getting in to fights every day because black folks don’t want to be black…. You came from Africa. And the crazy thing about it, is you never hear Chinese people saying I’m no longer Chinese because my family been in America 20 generation; you never see Irish people saying I’m no longer Irish ’cause my family been in America for 40 generations, you don’t see European Jews saying I’m no longer Jewish ’cause we been here for 50 generations. Only the negro. You are extremely unique. You are the only people in America who have no loyalty to the collective wellbeing….

00:24:55:03
Slavery messed us up, because slavery made us comfortable not having no control of our future…. the Chinese come to America to build a cultural empire, the Arabs come to America to build a cultural empire, the East Indians a cultural empire and you just want to participate…. You’re an integrationist and ain’t nobody else trying to integrate with you…. Only self-hating people integrate anyway. How you going to build power integrating? …

00:26:11:12
It is not the rapper fault that they are the role models… the real role-models – professional black men – have ran away from the black neighborhood….

00:27:07:12
White supremacy got it easy now cause they got a circle of negroes who will do everything they want them to do. And this why we have to raise our children with principles. The problem is too many parents are raising their kids with the same ethos – “Just get money.” “Just get money.”…

00:29:46:19
And they want to bring me before the board….I know what they’re made about. They mad about that Tuesday morning call….the biggest problem with black America is we hate each other more than we hate racism….

00:32:34:22
And if there is somebody more worth of the title Prince of Pan Africanism call his damn name. If there is someone more worth who’ve done more saving our kids from special ed, ADHD, and jail, call his name. You ain’t got no name. Name me a psychologist who has every woken up every Tuesday for 5-6-7 years and gave free advice at no cost. Name me one….

00:33:08:00
Every negro with a YouTube channel making videos about me. … sister Joyce Watkins … every time I wake up he has a new video … damn brother what did I do to you?

00:35:29:03
Brothers and sisters, the second law for my parents. After you stop telling all of your business to the schools, don’t go to no school meeting alone…

00:38:55:17
If it’s not on paper, it never happened. Stop talking on the phone to the teacher and start talking through that ink pen and email. They should hear from you every time they say something to you…. Stop letting these charter schools in Atlanta make you think they are private schools. Charter schools by law are alternative public schools….

00:39:54:07
Listen. The worst curse for a black child is to have a parent who don’t care and a teacher who couldn’t care less. You only need one to make it. If your teacher cares and your parent don’t you make it. If the parent cares and the teacher don’t you make it. If they both care you definitely gonna make it. But if you ain’t got neither one of them in your corner…

00:40:18:18
Listen. Education is not about brain power, it’s about soul power. Most of our kids go to school struggling ’cause there’s problems at the household that ain’t being dealt with. How am gonna focus on math when my daddy beating my mommy up in front of me? How I’m gonna focus on reading when my uncle going up my skirt and my mommie know it and won’t say nothing. Our kids got bigger fish to fry than learning about Christopher Columbus.

00:40:48:12
A psycho-academic holocaust…. because if y’all don’t make sure our kids got those academics it’s gonna lead to a holocaust. One out of 4 black boys in prison, two out of four referred to special ed, 3 out of 4 under some sort of psychiatric medication. What would happen in America if only one white boy out of four graduated? They would stop the whole system until they found out what’s wrong with it. But we’ve been at a 25% black male graduation rate for over 20 years and ain’t nobody said nothing about it.

And y’all Negroes said just go vote for Obama.

Remember that – Obama – the hell Obama do for blacks – I just came from Chicago a few days ago. They in Chicago saying what did Obama do for us. And some of y’all saying come on doc, he can’t be just a president for us. Okay brother, then why was he just the president for gay people not for America. I’m not homosexual. He made laws for them. Those Latins came to Obama, those immigrants he passed everything they wanted. Gave them a Supreme Court Justice.

So let me get this right, it’s okay to give gay people laws of their own. White women laws of their own. Immigrants laws of their own. But when it comes to black folks, it got to be for everybody. You negroes are just as stuck in a multicultural madness. Your problem is you feel like you’ve got to love everybody in order to be loyal to God. And in loving everybody you fell to realize you ain’t showing no loyalty to yourselves….

00:42:40:09
Have you realized we don’t have a single organization in this country that’s just for us – except the grassroot. You’ve got the Shrines of the Black Madonna, the Nation of Islam, Garvey, the Hebrews, the Moors – you’ve got some. But when you’re dealing with mainstream above ground …. NAACP is for everybody … the Urban League is for everybody…. I love the black Greek fraternities and sororities but every last one of y’all – for everybody.

Who the hell we got?

Chinese got special interest. Arabs got special interest groups. Latinos got special interest groups. And the Negroes got to be hands across America.

You don’t learn from your history. Remember we had a Jewish-Black coalition back in the 20’s. They got everything from you and then ignored you. In fact they started the NAACP so you could do all of the fighting and they get all of the rewards.

You used to have a Latino coalition back in the 70’s. The Latinos pushed you out front, used you and now they don’t know you no more. And everywhere I go I got Negro talking about we need to build coalitions. How about organizing yourself first, before you try to organize with another group.

Marcus Garvey said any group that is not well organized will be at the mercy of those groups that are.

00:56:50:15
The average black child in the United States has a working vocabulary level two grades beneath their class standing . So your daughter is an 8th grader and she talks like a 6th grader. Your son is a 6th grader but he talks like a 3rd grader….

00:57:20:13
And black woman, you’ve got to slow down on the hair sisters. Now listen to me. I was in China last spring. I will be going back to China in January 10th … And you know what I found out while over is there. The hair that they sale you they are not allowed to you that hair in China and Japan. It’s too toxic. So they’re sending you filth….

01:02:40:17
Talking about some slavery in Libya … African Union saying is we’re going to have a special meeting to deal with slavery — y’all some hypocrites. Y’all been knew they were trading our people.

01:03:27:00
When we have the reparation conversation… when I look at the guilty parties, I see no North African states listed. I see know Middle Eastern governments listed. How you gonna talk about reparations for slavery when the people who been doing it the longest aren’t even implicated in the lawsuit….

01:04:09:11
And my issue with reparation folks is why are we looking for money to come in to the community when we can’t even track the dollars that are already there….

01:06:49:21
The Food and Drug Administration of America is paying these Chinese stop and go’s to put chemicals in the oil that they are putting in your food….

01:07:50:00
I don’t know if y’all been paying attention but every culture in America is looking to corner a particular enterprise….

01:08:21:15
Brothers and sisters, we’ve got to have an Intellectual insurrection before we have any other kind of revolution….

01:09:07:07
The ego of the Negro is black America’s achilles heel….

01:12:52:14
You’re a trillion dollar people….you’re the riches group of African on this earth …

01:13:42:23
Your freedom – more than any other people’s freedom – will not be free…. Too many people are depending upon black failure for their success….

01:14:47:09
It’s written in the stars that we coming back. We just got to decide are we going to be the generation to put us back or not. Cause I’m tired of us sitting around waiting for leaders to save us…. We need teams of leaders …. And we don’t throw the elders away …

01:16:07:06
We don’t need to kill that kind of wisdom. An elder carries their experience, their parent’s experience, at least one grandparent’s experience…. When an elder dies, we lose a century of information…

01:16:38:02
And black women, I urge y’all to get y’all situation together amongst y’all selves because there is a pettiness amongst black women ….

01:17:20:18
When black men have issues with black men, we have natural term limits on our beef…. Not black women….

01:18:25:20
Because every sister who came in here with a man tonight with her man she does a quick surveillance of the entire audience….

01:18:56:10
And black woman you’ve got to respect another woman enough to not prance around her man at the same time. Some of you can be seductresses…. ‘cause you get a kick out of her insecurities. Don’t do that. Don’t do that…. And sister if he goes for her, get up and leave his ass….

01:19:39:08
That’s why my next book is the sisters book.… Sisters when you’re dealing with a man you have to come from a position of power not pleading. You’ve got to stop begging him to stop cheating…. Take the emotion out…. Sit him down at the table and tell him we have to talk business….

01:21:56:14
Fellas we’ve got to understand, yes you’ve got to get your hustle on … if you don’t nurture that queen, if you don’t take time to nurture her spiritually, emotionally and psychologically, then that becomes the breeding ground for infidelity because no matter how much money you bring home it cannot replace quality time….

01:23:51:07
A couple of things – number one we’re going back to Africa this summer and I think I’m going to revisit the tour we took two years ago which was Senegal and South Africa…

01:25:34:08
Next thing you know I ended up in Nat Turner land in Virginia. You guys are invited … There’s going to be a Black History program at Nat Turner Land I think February 12… this is the most powerful courageous revolutionary in American history….

01:26: 18:06
And if you want to go with me to Senegal and South Africa last week in July first week in August … 14 days 14 nights … we go all over …

01:27: 44:05
For those of you who got the children, we’re gonna do the Black College and Consciousness Tour for the young folks 11-17 boys and girls – that the first two weeks of July….

01:28:28:00Now y’all got two greats not too far from y’all – ‘cause right here in Atlanta and I went the last time I was here Bishop Henry McNeal Turner is buried 10 minutes from where you’re sitting at. Who is he? He is the first black man who is the first black men to say God is black. He is one of the grandfathers of Pan Africanism. He was a Bishop of the African Methodist Epistical Church who was responsible for putting AME in Africa. This is one of the first black men elected to office during reconstruction. He is the first chaplain – black chaplain – in the US Army and he is the man who stood up in State legislator of Georgia and called the US flag a “stinking dirty rag” and the honorable Elijah mohammad was a student of his at his school in Georgia. And if you ain’t been to his grave.

And guess who is just a couple of feet from him – Mama King and Daddy King – same cemetery brothers and sisters. You’ve got to visit those cemeteries to collect that ashe. I never miss an opportunity to visit an ancestor’s grave because you don’t know what blessings waiting for you right there…. But what y’all fell to realize is that ancestor energy – that ancestor energy may be one million times powerful than any individual deity. Get to get to know the blood that boils.

Brothers and sisters, January the 8th they are bringing me before the State board of psychology. What the hell for? And what the hell why? But I’m gonna ask y’all to keep me in your prayers… hopefully we will come a victor in this situation. And even if they take the cert, the way I see – and even if they ban me from getting my license, the way I see if Nat Turner can be hanged for your freedom, if Malcolm can be murdered for your freedom, if Harriett Tubman had to work day in and day out for your freedom, if Ida B. Wells had to look over her shoulders every day for your freedom, then what the hell is a piece of white man paper … I’m not quitting black man. I’m not quitting black woman….

Rain, sleet snow or shine there will be a FDMG.

I don’t know how long it’s going to take for us to get free. But we gonna get free. I don’t know how we’re gone to get free, but I know we’re going to get freedom. I don’t know who’s going to help us get to free, but I know we gone get that freedom or at least we gone die trying.

Racism raises its ugly head in Gwinnett! On Monday, December 11, 2017, the organizer of “Come Meet a Black Person” received a termination notification of her monthly co-working space and cancellation of her scheduled December events from the attorney for Cornerstone Co-working at NovoLogic, Inc. in downtown Lawrenceville, Georgia. This termination email was issued with a “because of complaints” statement and there was no discussion with the organizer or information provided on the complaints.

“I signed up for office space at Cornerstone on October 17, 2017. I did not go to the office at all until two days before my November 16th networking event, and those were very brief visits for interviews with local press. After we packed up following my successful event on November 16th, I have not been back to the space. On Monday, December 11th, I tried to login to the member’s zone on Cornerstone’s website, and I did not have access. I then went to my email account to see a message from NovoLogic’s attorney sent that morning informing me that my space agreement and upcoming events were terminated,” Moses continued.

“I know racism is alive and well in Gwinnett County, Georgia, but this move by NovoLogic is really tragic, troubling and disturbing,” Moses adds ruefully.

“Come Meet a Black Person” networking event has a mission of bridging the gap, changing race relations, but the organization has been abruptly booted out of their office space and future events cancelled.

Photo (l-r) Patrick Taylor and Alvin James Shelton, Jr,. at first “Come Meet a Black Person” Networking Event in Lawrenceville, Georgia held at Cornerstone at NovoLogic, Inc.

Patrick Taylor, an attendee of the first “Come Meet a Black Person” networking event and a firm advocate of this race-relations movement could not believe the actions of NovoLogic. “This just doesn’t make any sense to me,” says Taylor, a white Gwinnett County electrician who attended the event with his wife. “I think Cornerstone got ‘spooked’ and as it seems they are afraid to have any activists in their ranks.”

Moses agrees wholeheartedly. “With the divisiveness in this country led by President Trump’s administration; the racially charged Atlanta mayoral runoff election, and the morality vote in Alabama’s recent U.S. Senate race — is Gwinnett County the next battle ground against white privilege,” opines Moses. “We will not be stopped. We will not be deterred. We are moving on, because this issue matters most in America today.”

Upon notification of the agreement termination by NovoLogic, Moses had to scramble to find another venue for the second “Come Meet a Black Person” networking event which is scheduled for Friday, December 22, 2017. The event’s new venue is Pickneyville Park Community and Recreation Center at 4650 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Berkeley Lake, Georgia in Gwinnett County from 6:30-9:30 p.m.

“NovoLogic cannot stop this new Movement and this is not 1957,” says Moses. “When one door closes, many open. We’ve just begun. This is a new day in Gwinnett County!”